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THERMAL DECAY OF THE BATHOPRODUCT OF BACTERIORHODOPSIN
Author(s) -
Mao Boryeu
Publication year - 1981
Publication title -
photochemistry and photobiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.818
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1751-1097
pISSN - 0031-8655
DOI - 10.1111/j.1751-1097.1981.tb05438.x
Subject(s) - bacteriorhodopsin , chemistry , limit (mathematics) , thermal , chemical physics , photochemistry , crystallography , physics , thermodynamics , membrane , mathematics , biochemistry , mathematical analysis
— The photoproduct of bacteriorhodopsin at 77 K is a stable, bathochromically shifted species, K. K begins decaying exclusively to the next bacteriorhodopsin photocycle intermediate, L, near 90 K. The thermal transformation from K to L is estimated to have a low barrier height with an upper limit of 3.8 kcal/mol.